Louis C.K on the problem with Smart Phones

"The thing is, because we don't want that first bit of sad, we push it away with a little phone or a jack-off or the food. You never feel completely sad or completely happy, you just feel kinda satisfied with your product, and then you die. So that's why I don't want to get a phone for my kids."

Haley Friesen and Nobuhiro Sato

taken from http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/haley-friesen-nobuhiro-sato-rurubu


Rurubu (meaning "to dance and flow slowly" in Japanese) is a collaborative project by Toronto-based photographer Haley Friesen and San Francisco-based calligraphy artist Nobuhiro Sato that explores the powerful expressions of body movement coupled with energetic strokes of ink. The multiple mediums applied to this project complement each other, heightening the dynamic, visual effect of motion.

First, ballet dancers Kathleen Legassick and Meaghan Silva served as models for the series, elegantly expressing emotions through the art of dance, which Friesen caught on her digital camera. The images were then printed on watercolor paper and shipped to Sato, who proceeded to paint Japanese calligraphy over them with Sumi ink.

Friesen says, "I’ve always considered Japanese characters to have a strong resemblance to dancers and motion. There’s something about the sweeping gestures and graceful twists that make the slashes and splatters of hiragana and katana ink characters appear as a choreographed dance to my eyes. I’m sure this concept is much more effective –or perhaps just effective in a different manner- to those who are illiterate in Japanese."

Quote Of The Day

''Where is your playing the edge between the limit of your ability and the crushing fear of failure?''
-Scott Rennie

Dessert Breath By Danae Stratoiu

All text and images taken from http://www.danaestratou.com/


Desert Breath is a Land Art project created by D.A.ST. Arteam. The team was founded in 1995 by: Danae Stratou (installation artist), Alexandra Stratou (industrial designer & architect), Stella Constantinides (architect), for the purpose of creating this project.

The project is rooted in our common desire to work in the desert. In our mind’s eye the desert was a place where one experiences infinity. We were addressing the desert as a state of mind, a landscape of the mind. The point of departure was the conical form, the natural formation of the sand as a material. 

Desert Breath expands in an area of 100.000 m^2, in the eastern Sahara desert bordering the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt. It is a site-specific work that generated out of our perception of the site itself. Its construction consists of the displacement of 8.000 m³ of sand formed so as to create precise positive and negative conical volumes. The conical volumes form two interlocking spirals that move out from a common centre with a phase difference of 180^o degrees in the same direction of rotation. The centre is a 30-metre diameter vessel formed in a W-shaped section and filled with water to its rim. 

Located between the sea and a body of mountains at the point where the immensity of the sea meets the immensity of the desert, the work functions on two different levels in terms of viewpoint: from above as a visual image, and from the ground, walking the spiral pathway, a physical experience. The construction of Desert Breath was completed in March 1997. Desert Breath still exists becoming through its slow disintegration, an instrument to measure the passage of time.

 

 

 

 

Andrea De Stefani

For his second solo exhibition at Fluxia, Andrea De Stefani created a dry garden based on the aggregation of materials and forms of discordant origins, a landscape designed from the reconfiguration of residual forms. The elements that De Stefani has identified, collected and used as a matrix for his sculptures come from a specific environment: the margins of the industrial zone and the urban periphery, a terrain vague described by French landscape architect Gilles Clément in his definition of the “third landscape”.

Roots intertwined with plastic debris, scraps readapted to nests, moss-covered industrial leftovers are some of the forms generated by the merging of contingent environmental and cultural features.
Defining a preferential path within the gallery space and interacting with its geometry, De Stefani draws a crystallized panorama that marks the actual degree of humanization in a new, natural balance.

- See more at: http://moussemagazine.it/smashup-fluxia/#sthash.5FkuWWyn.dpuf

For his second solo exhibition at Fluxia, Andrea De Stefani created a dry garden based on the aggregation of materials and forms of discordant origins, a landscape designed from the reconfiguration of residual forms. The elements that De Stefani has identified, collected and used as a matrix for his sculptures come from a specific environment: the margins of the industrial zone and the urban periphery, a terrain vague described by French landscape architect Gilles Clément in his definition of the “third landscape”.

Roots intertwined with plastic debris, scraps readapted to nests, moss-covered industrial leftovers are some of the forms generated by the merging of contingent environmental and cultural features.
Defining a preferential path within the gallery space and interacting with its geometry, De Stefani draws a crystallized panorama that marks the actual degree of humanization in a new, natural balance.

- See more at: http://moussemagazine.it/smashup-fluxia/#sthash.5FkuWWyn.dpuf

For his second solo exhibition at Fluxia, Andrea De Stefani created a dry garden based on the aggregation of materials and forms of discordant origins, a landscape designed from the reconfiguration of residual forms. The elements that De Stefani has identified, collected and used as a matrix for his sculptures come from a specific environment: the margins of the industrial zone and the urban periphery, a terrain vague described by French landscape architect Gilles Clément in his definition of the “third landscape”.

Roots intertwined with plastic debris, scraps readapted to nests, moss-covered industrial leftovers are some of the forms generated by the merging of contingent environmental and cultural features.

Defining a preferential path within the gallery space and interacting with its geometry, De Stefani draws a crystallized panorama that marks the actual degree of humanization in a new, natural balance.

 

Oscar Tuazon

Bearing the traces of the natural elements and debris, Tuazon’s rust paintings in the gallery on 3 Loughborough Street are selected sections of canvas, each a part of a long drop cloth that served as Tuazon’s outdoor working surface. They are marked with the remnants of the metals and tools he used while making sculptures over a period of weeks, with an indexical immediacy that bears likeness to a photogram. The ‘accidental’ compositions on the surface of the canvases are ancillary to the structures made upon them- paintings that reveal the Freudian slips of a sculpture.

In their production, the canvases were connected to the sculptures by Tuazon’s movement between them- the gestures of a human body that interacted physically and democratically with both media, day after day. A horizontal working plane recalls the history of action painting, while the marks and scuffs of the studio environment have strong relation to the practices of artists who have elevated the work surface of the studio to the gallery environment.

The three sculptures in the gallery on Adam’s Row extend Tuazon's investigation of the ambiguity between work and work surface further, by incorporating studio furniture into the sculptures themselves. The materials and forms of the sculptures' produced elements overlap and mimic the used table- tops, frames and tressels they are interlocked with, confusing where one ends and the other begins.

 

 

Oscar Tuazon Untitled, 2012 rust, engine oil, charcoal, cement on canvas165 x 165 cm

I Met the Walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).

LEAF [ The Health Benefits of Juicing Raw Cannabis ]

Leaf introduces Dr. William Courtney and Kristen Peskuski of Cannabis International; along with the people involved in researching, promoting, regulating and benefiting from raw cannabis.

Dr. Courtney is a physician and researcher from Mendocino, California, who gives medical marijuana approvals to qualified patients in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. Kristen Peskuski is a researcher and patient who put her systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, interstitial cystitis, and numerous other conditions into remission juicing fresh cannabis.

They help make sense of the science behind patient's recoveries from a diverse range of medical conditions. Attorneys, physicians, law enforcement, medical care providers, patients and their families discuss their experiences with medical cannabis. They specifically focus on juicing fresh cannabis, which is non-psychoactive and contains medical properties 200-400 times stronger than traditional, heated cannabis.

Patients have reported success with osteo and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disorders, cancer and many other conditions using this unique therapy.

Please check out http://www.cannabisinternational.org for more information.

Please support Dr. William Courtney at http://www.CourtneyforCongress.org so that no one has to be afraid to use the medicine they need.

**MORE VIDEOS ON THE TOPIC OF CANNABIS & ITS HEALING PROPERTIES**

RUN FROM THE CURE (A MUST SEE VIDEO about curing cancer with "hemp oil"...and just to clarify, that's hemp oil, NOT hemp seed oil) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQ...

Cured: A Cannabis Story-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tghUh...

One of the best marijuana docs- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd6oJj...

The Power of Raw Cannabis- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgEP9F...
 

Quote of The Day

''An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.''

-Lao Tzu